We can't get enough of <a href="https://inhabitat.com/tag/legos">LEGOs</a>, so we're delighted to learn about a whole exhibit of 27 life-size sculptures at <a href="http://www.reimangardens.iastate.edu/" target="_blank">Reiman Gardens</a> in Ames, Iowa. Built by LEGO® Certified Builder, <a href="http://seankenney.com/" target="_blank">Sean Kenney</a>, the <a href="http://www.reimangardens.iastate.edu/en/sculptures_built_with_lego_bricks/" target="_blank">Nature Connects</a> show features a full-size mother bison, made from 45,143 bricks along with hummingbirds, butterflies, fish, a fox, rabbit, flowers and much more. The sculptures are spread throughout the public gardens and will be on display through October.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

Reiman Gardens is one of the largest public gardens in the state and serves as the entrance to Iowa State University and the city of Ames.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

As part of their <em>2012 Some Assembly Required</em> theme, the gardens hired New York-based artist and LEGO® Certified Builder, <a href="http://seankenney.com/" target="_blank">Sean Kenney</a> to build a series of life-size lego sculptures.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

The show is titled, “<a href="http://seankenney.com/portfolio/nature_connects/" target="_blank">Nature Connects</a>”, and the sculptures are inspired by gardens and nature.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

The 27 sculptures make up 14 displays and were created from nearly 500,000 Lego bricks.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

Kenney and his team built the exhibit in 8 months and made use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanone#As_a_welding_agent" target="_blank">MEK (methyl ethyl ketone)</a>, an organic “welding agent” also referred to as "polystyrene cement" to connect the Lego pieces together permanently.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

Ranging in size from 6 inches to nearly 8 feet tall, the sculptures are representations of how interconnected nature is.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

For instance, the water display features lily pads, a frog and a koi fish, which is meant to show how ecosystems rely on diversity to survive and thrive.

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Lilypads, frog and koi fish.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

The fox and the rabbit discuss how for there to be healthy and balanced populations, the rabbit provides food for the fox and the fox keeps rabbit populations at optimum levels to preserve their shared habitat.

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Closeup of the fox.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

The bumblebee represents the connection that plants and pollinators and how important this relationship is to encourage new growth.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

And the gardener discusses how our activities have deep rooted and often permanent impacts on our planet.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

Closeup of the finches at their bird feeder.

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Nature Connects Lego Sculptures-Sean Kenney

We can't get enough of LEGOs, so we're delighted to learn about a whole exhibit of 27 life-size sculptures at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa. Built by LEGO® Certified Builder, Sean Kenney, the Nature Connects show features a full-size mother bison, made from 45,143 bricks along with hummingbirds, butterflies, fish, a fox, rabbit, flowers and much more. The sculptures are spread throughout the public gardens and will be on display through October.